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Libby O. Cohen Library
Welcome to the Libby O. Cohen Library, a vital center of the Tandem Friends School community. The library holds approximately 6,000 titles of research, reference, and video materials, and works of fiction for Middle School and Upper School students. The collection supports the curriculum as well as provides for research and recreational reading. The library actively supports research, both print and electronic, in all grades, from 5th grade “Passion Projects” to Senior Projects. The library also promotes recreational reading through a Middle School reading program modeled after the Battle of the Books. Books are cataloged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
The library offers an online catalog, research databases, and Internet access. Students can search the UVA Library catalog and the local Jefferson-Madison Libraries catalog for additional resources. Four computers in the library serve students’ research and writing needs. The library is located adjacent to one of the school’s computer labs with eighteen additional computers. The library website provides access to electronic encyclopedias and other reference resources, as well as the full text of over 3,000 newspaper and periodical articles through subscription databases. Library web pages also offer a research center designed to support students in the research process and guide them in the selection and use of Internet sites pertinent to the curriculum.
The librarian is available at all times to assist individual students with library use and research.
The Libby O. Cohen Library at Tandem Friends School seeks to ensure that all students develop the skills that they need to become thoughtful and effective users of ideas and information. The library provides learning opportunities, instruction, and instructional materials appropriate to each student’s needs. The library is committed to providing support to the curriculum, enhancement of classroom activities, opportunities for recreational reading, and an environment that promotes responsible scholarship and citizenship. The library program has as its goal the development of lifelong learners and library users.
In 1971, Tandem Friends School hired its first professional librarian, Libby Okun Cohen, who began building the collection and shaping the library program. Until 1986, Libby Cohen served as the school’s professional, dedicated, and energetic librarian. Under her watchful eye, the library became the central focus of the academic and cultural life of the school. When Libby left Tandem Friends in 1986, the library was officially named the Libby O. Cohen Library.
The library enjoys a central location on campus on the top floor of the Math/Science Building with a beautiful view of Carter's Mountain
The librarian is Barbara Studholme. Barbara holds an MLS degree from the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science and an MA in French from Indiana University. Barbara’s library experience includes research and reference librarianship at the National Geographic Society.
The library is open from 8:15 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on all school days.
The library telephone number is 434-296-1303, ext. 339.
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Peruse the power of word origins! Welcome to SAT Vocabulary Words of the Week, focusing on English vocabulary derived from Greek and Latin roots. Thank you for attending to this column this school year. I hope you have found it instructive! I will begin again in mid-August as the 2013-2014 school year gets under way. In the meantime, if you cannot wait, you can listen to many podcasts that describe the Greek and Latin root word origins of English vocabulary.
PSAT and SAT Word of the Day: unilateral: A unilateral decision is entirely one-sided, involving only one side of an issue or one country among many.
Word Etymology: A unilateral decision is completely “one-sided.”
SAT same sense: autonomous, polarization, nonpartisan
SAT opposite sense: bipartisan, coalition, unanimous
Friday Fun Word: iotacist: someone who is prone to an excessive use of the letter "i"; suovetaurilia: a Roman sacrifice to Jupiter of a white sow, white sheep, and white bull to kick off the five-year census in the Campus Martius in Rome
Check out this informative archive of blogposts and podcasts focusing on PSAT and SAT Latin and Greek roots to further your knowledge of SAT and PSAT vocabulary!
Here find a fascinating compendium of graphic Latin and Greek root word trees.
SAT English Vocabulary Links
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English vocabulary Greek and Latin roots and prefixes podcasts and blog links: Latin root word cis, -cide:cut; Latin root word fall: trick; Latin root words mit + miss: send; Latin root word form: shape; Latin root cogn: learn; Greek root word morph: shape, form; Greek root word chron: time; Greek root word graph: write; Latin root word ject: thrown; Latin root word fer: carry; Latin root word lat: carry; Latin root words duc and duct: lead; Latin root word fic: make,do; Latin root word fac: make, do; Latin root word plic: fold; Greek root word log: "word" and suffix -logy: "study of"; Latin root words dic and dict: "say, "tell"; Latin root word vert: "turn"; Latin root word vers: "turn"; Latin root word tract: "drag, pull"; Latin root word cept: "taken, take"; Latin root words cip, cap, ceiv: "take"; Latin root word ten: "hold"; Latin root words tin, tain, tent: "hold"; Latin root words ven, vent: "come"; Latin root word mal: "evil, bad"; English prefix re-: "back, again"; English prefix re-: "thoroughly; English root words sid and sed "sit"; Greek and Latin etymology podcast; English morphology podcast; Latin root word ced: "go, move"; Latin root word cess: "go, move"; English prefix pre-: "before, in front"; Latin root words grad and gress: "step"; Latin word roots clus, clud, and clos: "shut"; English prefix trans-: "across"; English prefix inter-: "between"; Latin root word magn: "big, large, great"; English prefix ex-: "out of, from"; English intensive prefix ex-: "very, thoroughly"; English intensive prefixes; Latin root word pend: "hang"; Latin root word ped: "foot"; English prefix sub-: "under, below"; English prefix super: "over, above"; English prefix circum: "around"; English prefix pro-: "forward, forth"; English prefixes contra-, counter-: "opposite, against; English prefix uni-: "one"
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